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F. G. HODE LL CABINET Sept. 11, 1928. 1,683,891

Filed March 12, 1 927 2 Sheets-Sheet annular! Patented Sept. 11, 192 8.

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Application-filed March 12, .1927. Serial No. 174,832.

This invention relates to a. manner of distributingmerchandising: and fabricating tire chains of a type known. as custom made andmore particularly to 1ne ans.-- for practicing thesame, embracing. a novel form of packagingcomprising a chainbatch and shipping container, and a combined stock containing cabinet,-worlt bench and display sales device, adapted for use with "the package.

The invention comprises generally. improvements over that disclosed inthe copending application of: Howard lVilcoX. Serial No. 92,775, filed: March 6th, 1926 which in part disclosesa methodof making up chains to fit accurately the. specific tires for whichthe chains are required, by selecting one ofra relatively small number of sizes of long lengths of stock chain and cutting 'the desirederelatively. short length from this size. v

That application discloses also a Vending cabinet" combining. the features. of, display st nd, stock c n ai er and wor -bench, pr vided with a number of bins corresponding wi h; the: number of s ck chains. f o g 1 stock chain lengths necessarily carried; by the dealer. Such stock chain lengths are originally distributed inshipping containers of width to receive the stock chain in laterally extended position the length and height of the container being of dimension sufficient to receive the entire long stock length of chain folded back and forth upon itself.

My invention contemplates briefly, separating the stock chain lengths each in a batch laid as upon itself in superposed parallel layers, and providing for each bat-ch a shipping container adapted to confine the chain length as arranged, shipping the chain in these containers andinstead of transfer ring the long chain lengths from the barrel customarily employed as shipping container, into their respective bins in the vending cabinet, merelyv removing the tops of the shipping containers and thereafter sliding the same int-othe vending cabinet.

The exact nature of the invention willbe apparent from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of a vending vabinet in which my invention has been incorporated and Fig. 2 is a typical section through the same.

According to my invention instead of shipping the several/long chain lengths in discriminately together as in. a barrel I prepare each chain length'as a batch by laying the same in spread ladder form in superposed. parallel layers; that is the chain length in spread form may be rolled upon itself, laid back and forth upon itself in chain folds, or similarly arranged so that the width of the batch is that of the spread ladderfform chain and so that the chain may be continuously withdrawn from the batch without entanglement, beginnlng with the outer or top layer. For each batchfso arranged I provide a shipping container of width to closely fit its size chain as laid,

packagev adapted for shipment; sothatfseveral packages of; varyim sizes. corresponding to the desired stock size. of 'chainwill complete a dealers stock of chain sizes.

'llheyending cabinet is formed preferably of. sheet metalin any convenient mannerand comprises the: rectangular sides 1, bottom 2, andyfront wall3 in outer dimension, the lower portion of the cabinet forming a compartment 4, well or bin adapted to receive the shipping containers 5, 5, 5'1, etc..v in

which the several batches of corresponding various sizes of stock chain lengths are re ceived by the dealer.

The upper portion of the cabinet may be provided along its front or display face with a number of bins 6 and similarly along its rear face with a numberof bins 7, 7', 7,

etc., adapted to receive connecting links to be secured to the lengths of the chain cut from the long stock lengths in the compart- Inent below. Above the bin 7, etc, is preferably a wooden table 8 which serves as a work bench. The bins 6 and 7 are spaced apart as'indicated in Fig. 2 to form between them a well 11, leading from the respective shipping containers upwards to hooks 9 upon the rear surface of a display head 10 which is provided with suitable advertising matter upon its front surface, as may be also the front wall 3.

In practice as the chain packages are received by the dealer the tops of the ship- The batch tainers slid into the compartment l in the lower portion'of the cabinet; the upper end of the chain of each batch is thereafter brought upward throughthe well 11 and secured upon the proper hook 9 as indicated in the drawings. Thereafter the chain may be removed from its batch layer after layer upward through the well without entanglement and the dealer makes up from the stock chain lengths, tire chains as required, in the usual and well known manner and all as explained in detail in the copending application referred to.

lVhat I claim is: a

1. In a tire chain display apparatus, a cabinet having a compartment open at its front end and provided with an opening in the top and having a display rack above said top opening said compartment being adapted to receive a shippii'ig container slid thereinto through its openend as a drawer and containing a batch of chain laid in superposed parallel layers and laterally confining said layers lai(l,'ancl said display rack being adapted to support an end of chain extending from said container in said compartment through said top opening.

2. In a tire chain display apparatus, a cabinet having a compartment open at its front end and provided with an opening laterally extending along its top, and a plurality of shipping containers in said com partment, each container having a batch of chain laid in superposed parallel layers and laterally confining the layers of its chain batch as laid and forming a drawer sl-idable in said compartment through the open end thereof to and from a position beneath said top opening thereof; said cabinet having a display rack extending along above said top opening and adapted to support the ends of chains extending from said containers through said top opening. v V

3. In a tire chain display apparatus, a cabinet having a compartment open at its front end and a plurality of shipping containers in said compartment each container having a batch of chain laid in superposed parallel layers and laterally confining the layers of its chain batch as laid and forming a "drawer slidable in said compartment 7 through the open end thereof, said compartment havmg an openlng in its top extendmg laterally above said containers, and midway of the front and rear ends thereof, where by chain may be withdrawn from said containers through said top openmgiwithout 'tangling or twisting, said ,cabinet' having a display rack extending along above said a top opening and adapted to support the ends of chains extending from said containers through said opening.

4:. In a tire chain displayapparatus, a cabinet having a compartment open at one end and provided with an opening in the top and having .a display rack above said top opening, said compartment .being adapted to receive a shipping container slid thereinto through its open end as a: drawer and containing a batch of chain, and said display rack being adapted to support an end of chain extending from said container in said compartment through said top openr i In testimony whereof I hereby afiix my 1 signature.

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